WHO
This is my third year growing tomatoes for sale. I’ve been gardening in my small urban garden for six years and expanded to a large country garden two years ago. I love growing tomatoes and seeing all the different shapes, sizes and tasting the amazing range of flavours.

WHAT
All plants are grown from reliable seed sources, specifically the USA (Seed Saver’s Exchange, Tomato Grower’s Supply, Johnny’s Selected Seeds, Wild Boar Farms) and Canada (Tatiana’s TOMATObase and Casey’s Heirloom Tomatoes) as well as a couple from seed trades on Tomatoville (www.tomatoville.com). All tomatoes will be started indoors late March in my living room using heating mats and organic starter mix, potting soil and liquid fish emulsion.

Plants are $3.50 each or three for $10.

WHEN
Plants will be ready for pick-up in early to mid-May.

WHERE
I am located in Kemptville, ON.

Please EMAIL ME if you have any questions about the tomatoes or pick-up. Thanks for stopping by!

Kathy

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

I do not ship plants. Pick-up only.

Pre-orders will be taken until March 20, 2010.

After the pre-order date, the number of plants per variety will vary and be limited.

ANDREW RAHART’S JUMBO RED
redbeefsteak
Late season, 90 – 95 days, 12 – 16 oz.
A family heirloom of unknown origins. Quite high yields for a large tomato. Intensely red fruit with flesh that has a rich, deep taste.Indeterminate.

ANNA RUSSIAN
pinkheart
Mid season, 75 – 80 days, up to 1 lb.
Heart-shaped fruit with an excellent, sweet and juicy taste with high yields for such an early heart-shaped tomato. A family heirloom originally from a Russian immigrant in the 1980s who received them from his family in Russia.Indeterminate, sparse and wispy vines with finely cut, regular-leaf foliage.

BLACK CHERRY
blackcherry
Mid season, 65 – 75 days, 1 oz.
Very good production of large dusky purple black cherry fruits. Excellent sweet and tangy flavour. Developed by the owners of Tomato Growers Supply Company from a natural cross in 2003.Indeterminate on 7′ tall vines with regular-leaf foliage.

BRANDYWINE CHERRY
pinkcherry
Mid season, 85 days, 1 – 2 oz.
Dark pink, large, oblate cherries in clusters of 5 – 6 per truss. Very productive and beautiful fruit with a smooth texture and mild flavour that improves as the season goes on. Many seeds per fruit. A genetic fluke from a Brandywine.Indeterminate potato-leafed vine.

BRANDYWINE, PINK (SUDDUTH’S STRAIN)
pinkbeefsteak
Late season, 85 – 95 days, 1 – 2 lb.
Very good flavour with low to moderate yields. A family heirloom with a delicious, pleasantly sweet taste. Collected in 1980 by Ben Quisenberry from Doris Sudduth Hill of Tennessee whose family had grown it for nearly a century.Indeterminate, vigorous, potato-leaf vine.

COSMONAUT VOLKOV (new for 2010) redirregular
Mid season, 80 days, 4 – 9 oz.
Medium-sized fruit grows in clusters of 4 – 6. Fruit is irregular shaped, from flattened to slightly oblong. Very productive with good flavour. A Ukrainian variety named after Vladislav Volkov, a Russian cosmonaut who was killed during the landing of the Russian spaceship, Soyuz 11, along with other crew members. Indeterminate, regular-leaf foliage.

CRNKOVIC YUGOSLAVIAN
pinkbeefsteak
Mid season, 80 – 90 days, 1 – 2 lb.
A family heirloom brought to the US by Yasha Crnkovic, a colleague of Seed Saver Exchange member, Carolyn Male. High yields for such a large tomato with perfect shoulders that almost never crack. Fruit has a very deep, rich and sweet taste that has full tomato flavour.Indeterminate, regular-leaf foliage.

CUOSTRALEE
redbeefsteak
Mid season, 80 – 85 days, 1 – 2 lb.
A red beefsteak with slight ribbing at the shoulders. Very high yields of 4”-diameter fruit with strong and intense taste with a classic tomato flavour. A family heirloom from France.Indeterminate, regular-leaf foliage.

EARL OF EDGECOMBE
orangeglobe
Mid season, 80 days, 6 – 10 oz.
A New Zealand family heirloom. After the death of the 6th Earl of Edgecombe in the 1960s, the heir to the title was a sheep-farming relative in New Zealand who brought this seed to England and gave it to the Henry Doubleday Foundation. High yields of rich, sweet, tart fruit. Compact, vigorous, indeterminate vines with regular-leaf foliage.

EARL’S FAUX
pinkbeefsteak
Mid season, 80 – 85 days, 1 – 1.5 lb.
Discovered in early 2000s as a potato-leaf variety in a regular-leaf Red Brandywine seed trade. Fruit has an excellent taste that is both sweet and complex with good yield. Winner of many tomato-tasting contests.Indeterminate, vigorous, potato-leaf vine.

GARDEN PEACH (new for 2010) yellowglobe
Mid season, 70 – 80 days, 2 oz.
Good production of small, golf ball-sized fruit with a slight fuzz to their skin. Good mild flavour and a good keeper (can keep up to several months). One of the oldest heirloom tomatoes from the Andes, from the 1600s.Indeterminate, regular-leaf foliage.

GERMAN RED STRAWBERRY (new for 2010) redheart
Mid season, 75 – 85 days, 8 – 12 oz.
Large red heart-shaped fruit is meaty and juicy and has an excellent flavour. Good balanced tomato taste. Good yield. A family heirloom of German origin from Marjorie Morris in Indiana.Indeterminate, wispy vines with regular-leaf foliage.

GIANNINI (new for 2010) redplum
Mid season, 75 – 85 days, 5 – 6 oz.
Fruit is too juicy to be a paste tomato, despite its shape. Some fruit may have yellow shoulders. Taste is excellent, sweet and balanced. A very nice slicer tomato that can be used to make tomato juice. Italian origin.Indeterminate, regular-leaf, wispy foliage.

GOGOSHA (new for 2010) pinkbeefsteak
Late season, 80 – 85 days, 9 – 16 oz.
Large, meaty, juicy fruit has outstanding flavour and few seeds. A family heirloom from the Ukraine. Given to Carolyn Male from her student, Tanya Gogosha, who brought it from her family from the Tarnipal region of the Ukraine.Indeterminate, potato-leaf vine.

GREEN DOCTORS
greencherry
Mid season, 80 days, under 1 oz.
Green fruit that grows in clusters of 6 – 10 that turns yellowish when fully ripe. Moderate yield. A sport of the variety, Dr. Carolyn, and named by Victor Schrager after a trout fly and in honour of Drs. Carolyn Male and Amy Goldman, who discovered this tomato.Indeterminate regular-leaf.

HALEY’S PURPLE COMET
blackcherry
Mid season, 70 – 80 days, 1 – 2 oz.
A large and round cherry dark purple tomato with green shoulders. Very good early and improving greatly towards the end of the season. Thought to be a cross of Cherokee Purple. From Wild Boar Farms. Indeterminate.

JULIET, F1
redplum
Mid season, 60 days, 1 oz.
A HYBRID. High yields of glossy-red, grape-shaped tomatoes that are very sweet and grow in clusters. Stays on the vine and is crack resistant.Indeterminate, regular-leaf.

LILLIAN’S YELLOW HEIRLOOM
yellowbeefsteak
Late season, 90 days, 1 lb.
A unique pale yellow beefsteak with moderate yields that take a while to ripen. Very meaty fruit have few seeds and a citrusy, sweet, rich taste. A family heirloom from the USA.Indeterminate, vigorous vine that is potato-leafed (not often found in large yellow varieties).

MARIANNA’S PEACE
pinkbeefsteak
Mid season, 80 – 85 days, 1 – 2 lb.
Dense, creamy, sweet flesh with rich complex, old tomato-ey flavors. A good balance of acidity and sweetness. Shoulders of fruit should be rounded, not fluted. A family heirloom from the 1900s, brought to the USA during WWII from Bohemia Czechoslovakia.Indeterminate, vigorous, potato-leaf vine.

MARTINO’S ROMA
redplum
Mid season, 90 days, 2 oz.
High yields of red pear-shaped fruit that have a pleasant, not intense, typical paste taste. Ripe fruit tends to fall from the vine. A family heirloom from Italy.A DETERMINATE vine with vigorous, rugose-leaf foliage.

MATT’S WILD CHERRY (new for 2010) redcherry
Mid season, 60 – 70 days, under 1 oz.
Very high yield of small, red fruit that is hard to detach from stem. Originated from Mexico where it grows wild. Readily self-seeds to provide volunteers for next year.Indeterminate, vigorous regular-leaf vine.

MEXICO MIDGET
redcherry
Mid season, 60 – 70 days, 1 oz.
Discovered by a truck driver while driving in Mexico, claiming it grew wild there. A highly-branched plant with small leaves that produces a very large crop of seedy, round, red fruit that has a burst of sweet flavour. Steady producer until first fall frost.Indeterminate, vigorous vines with regular-leaf foliage.

MOMOTARO
pinkglobe
Mid season, 75 – 80 days, 6 – 8 oz.
This is the most popular tomato in Japan where gardeners prefer tomatoes pink and sweetly flavoured. HYBRID plants produce abundant crops of round, smooth tomatoes. Their taste is intensely rich and sweet with just the right amount of acid. Seeds are nottrue to type. Indeterminate. Regular-leaf foliage.

NEVES AZOREAN RED
redbeefsteak
Mid season, 75 – 85 days, 10 – 16 lb.
Good yield of fruit that has a very good, rich flavour. Developed by Anthony Neves from Massachusetts who had brought the seeds from the Azores where he had been selecting for larger size. Large fruit has a very rich flavour.Indeterminate, vigorous vines with regular-leaf foliage.

OPALKA
redplum
Mid season, 80 – 85 days, 6 – 8 oz.
A family heirloom from Poland, which was brought to Amsterdam, NY in the 1900s by the Opalka family. High yields of red, elongated fruits resemble red peppers and have an excellent, very pleasing, mildly sweet taste. Can be eaten fresh as well as used for sauce.Indeterminate, regular-leaf foliage.

PAUL ROBESON
blackbeefsteak
Mid season, 75 days, 8 – 12 oz.
A Russian heirloom in honour of the 1937 black opera singer star in King Soloman’s Mines who was also an advocate for equal rights and very popular in the former Soviet Union. Medium-size fruit has a complex, sweet yet tangy and rich flavour. Fair yields that are free of most blemishes and cracking.Indeterminate, regular-leaf foliage.

PRUE (new for 2010) redheart
Mid season, 69 – 80 days, 4 – 12 oz.
High yields of elongated plum- or heart-shaped fruit. Outstanding flavour, very few seeds, a great variety. From a Mr. Prue in MA who was born around 1900 and had been growing these tomatoes in the 1940s or earlier.Indeterminate, wispy vines with regular-leaf foliage.

SARA’S GALAPAGOS(new for 2010) redcherry
Mid season, 70 – 80 days, under 1 oz.
Foliage looks like both a regular and potato leaf. Flowers have exerted stigmas and can cross easily with other tomatoes if not bagged. Medium to high yields of small, dark red cherries with outstanding sweet flavour. Brought back from the GalapagosIslands by Amy Goldman where she traveled with her daughter, Sara. Thought to be a stable inter-species cross and not a true currant tomato.Vigorous, indeterminate, mixed-leaf vines.

SIOUX
redglobe
Mid season, 70 – 75 days, 3 – 6 oz.
Released by the University of Nebraska, fruit has an excellent, sweet yet tangy, rich and complex flavour and reliably large harvests even in hot weather.Indeterminate, regular-leaf foliage.

SOLDACKI
pinkbeefsteak
Mid season, 80 – 90 days, over 1 lb.
High yields of dark pink beefsteaks. Fruit has an intense taste that is both sweet and tart. A Polish family heirloom from Krakow, Poland, brought to the Cleveland, Ohio when the family immigrated around 1900.Vigorous indeterminate, potato-leaf vine.

STUMP OF THE WORLD
pinkbeefsteak
Late season, 80 – 85 days, 1 lb.
Introduced by Ben Quisenberry of Ohio and thought to be named after a biblical reference. Dark pink fruit is smaller and more productive than Brandywine and offers similar excellent, rich, complex flavours. Indeterminate, potato-leaf vine.Indeterminate.

STUPICE
redglobe
Early season, 55 – 60 days, 3 – 4 oz.
Pronounced “stoo-PEACH-ka”. One of the four original Czechoslovakian varieties sent to the US by Milan Sodomka. Deep-red globes have a full flavour and balanced taste. Very hardy, extremely early. Heavy yields all season.Compact, indeterminate, potato-leaf.

SUN GOLD F1
orangecherry
Late season, 95 days, under 1 oz.
A HYBRID, i.e., seeds are not true to type. Attractive, golden-orange fruit has a very high sugar content. Ideal for children. Resistant to Tobacco Mosaic Virus and Fusarium.Indeterminate, vigorous vine with regular-leaf foliage.

TOMMY TOE
redcherry
Mid season, 70 – 80 days, 1 – 2 oz.
An heirloom from the Ozark Mountains, which is also very popular in Australia where it won several taste contests. A great taste with the right amount of sweetness. Sets 12 – 16 one-inch diameter fruit per truss.Indeterminate.

I know I have seedlings of Black Krim and Black Plum, however, I didn’t start any Black Zebra. I found the seedlings last year to be too wispy and, since no one asked for them, I didn’t start them. I’ll let you know about numbers for the other two.

Kathy,
I love your website. I’m interested in your 2010 plant sale. I understand that your not taking orders. Please email me back if you have any tomato plants available.I’m looking for 6
Also how did your herb experiment go?
Thank-you.
Elizabeth Ottawa